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> My favorite comment was from lisper...

Cool! Someone noticed me!

:-)

(I find this noteworthy because I've been putting all this effort into writing a series of blog posts about the scientific method and I've gotten very little feedback on that. But this little throwaway comment, that gets attention! Life is funny sometimes.)



Your profile link is broken, where can I find out more? If you were advertising yourself what would you ask me to read? (giving you a wildcard here)


This seems like a good point to beat my drum: put your email address in your HN profile, people! A website link also wouldn’t hurt.

Otherwise if someone wants to follow up with you about a comment, there is no way to do so without spamming a public comment reply.

Contact info!


That won't work because many people here post anonymously. They have a throwaway account and make a new one now and then to leave no trace to their real identity. Leaving an email address would mean having to maintain a throwaway email in sync with the HN account.

Nowadays that's even harder to do since HN shadowbans new accounts for a while. You write a comment and you are surprised that nobody replies. It's because nobody but yourself can see it.

Which, ironically, contributes to the issue disussed here.

I'm also using a rather new account, let's see if this msg actually is visible now.


> Leaving an email address would mean having to maintain a throwaway email in sync with the HN account.

Apple's hide my email or DDG's email services are good for that imo.

> I'm also using a rather new account, let's see if this msg actually is visible now.

Take a guess ;)



> Your profile link is broken

Try it now.




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